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UNITED STATES 1,556,353 PATENT OFFICE.

GORDON E. ROEDDING, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR T0 DOERR MANU- FACTURING COMPANY, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF MICHI- GAN.

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Application filed November 24, 1924. Serial No. 751,833.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GORDON E. ROEDDING, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Containers, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to containers; and its object is to provide an improved device of that character having a receptacle which may be readily swung to open and to closed positions, and may be securely held in its closed position; and further, to provide such a swingably-mounted receptacle having means for yieldably holding the same in its open position.

This, and any other and more specific objects hereinafter appearing are attained by, and the invention finds preferable embodiment in, the device hereinafter particularly described in the body of this specification and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of a container in closed position;

Figure 2 is a like view of the same in open position;

Figure 3 is a view in perspective of the frame or casing of the container;

Figure 4 is a view in perspective of the receptacle of the device;

Figure 5 is a view in perspective of a member slidably mounted on said receptacle;

Figure 6 is a sectional view of the entire device taken on a central transverse vertical plane, and showing the same in closed posit-lon;

Figure 7 is a like view of the same, but showing the device in open position; and

Figur 8 is a like view of certain parts of the same, but showing a modified construction.

In the embodiment of the invention illus trated by the drawings, a container for cigarettes, matches and the like adapted to be mounted in the interior of an automobile is shown. This device comprises a'frame or casing 1 having an open front 2, and secured in position by suitable means as by screws passing through openings 3 in the casings end walls 4. A receptacle 5, adapted to hold boxes and articles as seen in. Figure 2, is swingably mounted at its lower outer edge on the casing frame, as by means of its tongues 6 inserted into sockets 7 adjacent the casings lower front edge. This receptacle carries a member 8 vertically slidable thereon in bearings provided by said members bent-over clips 9 containing slidably the side edges of the front leaf 10 of the re ceptacle. This member 8 has inwardly extending side wings 11 carrying at their upper inner corners bent-over lugs or parts 12. The end walls 4 of the casing 1 are provided with slots 13 forming guide-bearings in which the lugs or parts 12 of the member 8 are adapted to move slidably. This slidebearing comprises a vertical portion 14 which serves as a keeper, receiving the parts or lugs 12 in the receptacles closed position and thus holding the same securely closed; this slide-bearing also comprises a portion 15 extending laterally from the keeper por tion 14 of the slide-bearing and toward the front of the device, the outer end 16 of this lateral portion forming a stop to limit the outward or opening movement of the receptacle. A spring 17 pressing between a shelf 18 on the receptacle and an overhang 19 on the member 8 presses this member upwardly, thus urging the lugs or parts 12 into the vertical keeper portion of the guidebearing when the receptacle is swung to its closed position. When however the member 8 is pressed downwardly by its handle 20 to open the receptacle, the lugs or parts 12 pass below the elbow 21 in the guide-bearing and may be drawn by the opening movement of the receptacle into the lateral portion 15 of said bearing, and may slide there-along until the end of said portion, the stop 16, is

reached, so that the receptacle is thus limited to the open position seen in Figure 2. In the construction shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, 6 and 7 this lateral portion 15 of the slot or guide-bearing is an arc of the circle whose center is the axis of the receptacles swingable mounting; but in the modified construction shown in Figure 8, this lateral portion 15 of the guide-bearing extends from the elbow 21 in a direction increasingly distant from said axis, so that the spring urges the receptacle to open position whenever the lugs or parts 12 are in said lateral portion. 15 of the guide-bearing. The position of the lateral portion 15 in other views relatively to the position of the lateral portion 15 is shown in dotted lines in Figure 8.

It will be seen that the member 8, when the receptacle is swung into the casing and the lugs or parts 12 enter the vertical keeper portion 14 of the guide-bearing, is pressed upwardly by the spring to a position closing the open upper portion of the casings front, as seen in Figure 1.

As shown in Figures 6, 7 and 8, the device may be so mounted, that the casing frame extends into a wall 25, the flange 26 of the casing frame resting on the walls outer surface.

The invention beingintended to be pointed out in the claims, is not to be limited to or by details of construction of any particular embodiment thereof illustrated by the drawings or hereinbefore described.

I claim:

1. In a device of the character described: a frame; a receptacle swingably mounted thereon and having a slidable member provided with a guided keeper-engaging part, the frame having a guide-bearing comprising a keeper portion and a portion extending laterally therefrom, said members said part being guidedly movable in the bearing and into its keeper portion to .hold the receptacle in closed position.

3. In a device of the character described:

a frame; a receptacle swingably mounted thereon and having a slidable member provided with a guided keeper-engaging part, the frame having a guide-bearing comprising a keeper portion and a portion extending laterally therefrom in a direction increasingly distant from the axis of the receptacles swingable mounting, said members said part being guidedly movable in the bearing and into its keeper portion to hold the receptacle in closed position; a spring pressing said member to slide its said part into the keeper portion and from said axls.

4. In a device of the character described: an open-front casing frame; a receptacle mounted thereon swingably to a position therein and having a member slidable on the receptacle to casing-closing position and provided with a guided keeper-engaging part, the casing frame having a guide-bearing comprising a keeper portion and a portion extending laterally therefrom in a direction increasingly distant from the axis of the receptacles swingable mounting and having a stop, said members said part being guidedly movable in the bearing, into its keeper por tion to hold the receptacle in inwardly swung position, and against the stop to hold the same in outwardly swung position; a spring pressing said member to slide its said part into the keeper portion and from said axls.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand at Grand Rapids, Michigan, this 22nd day of November, 1924.

GORDON E. ROEDDING. 

